“I call now, as before the election, for the politics of partnership”, Keir Starmer told the Trades Union Congress in September, “with us in government, with business, and most importantly of all with working people”.
But he’s not inviting you and me to Downing Street and asking for policy suggestions. He has invited the board of Blackrock, with its $11.5 trillion of global assets. Comparatively, the UK’s total net worth is an estimated $15 trillion.
Tweeting about his meeting, Keir Starmer said: “I’m determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets…” Yeah right, whose pockets is he talking about? Clearly not pensioners’ or students’.
If you receive your Downing Street invite in the post, here are some suggestions from us: £15-an-hour minimum wage now, kick the private companies out of our NHS, nationalise the energy companies, free university education… the list goes on. And if Sir Keir says he can’t afford it, get the Blackrock bosses to dig out the billions that they have lost down the back of the sofa unnoticed.
